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Doug Batchelor: Did
you know about 5,000 stars
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can be seen with the naked eye,
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yet with a small telescope,
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you can see hundreds
of thousands of stars?
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The largest telescopes on earth
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reveal millions of
galaxies packed with stars,
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whereas the
Hubble Space Telescope
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might be able to see
over a billion galaxies.
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Keep in mind, it's estimated
that each of these galaxies
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contain over 200 billion stars,
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and it's now believed
over 2 trillion galaxies
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exist in the universe.
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Looking at the
sky on a clear night,
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all the stars we see
are in the Milky Way galaxy,
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a fiery spiral of stars
over 100,000 light years across.
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Such awesome statistics give us
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a small concept of
the greatness of God
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and it stirs within us a
yearning for space travel.
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But did you know the
Bible teaches that the redeemed
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will have this opportunity?
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Join me today as we look at
some fascinating Bible facts
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about the incredible future
God has planned for his people.
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Doug: We get to talk
about heaven tonight.
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And of course, that
is a wonderful subject,
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something that you
find referenced in the Bible
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over 500 times.
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So, it is a Bible subject.
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Some of the best material is
found in the books of prophecy,
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namely the Book of Revelation,
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and also Daniel,
Ezekiel talks about
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this kingdom
that God has prepared.
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Our presentation tonight
is dealing with the subject
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of the glorious kingdom.
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You know, it's interesting that
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it seems like in North America,
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if you can believe the polls,
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that the number of people who
believe in God is going down,
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but you still have about
75% of people in North America
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believe in heaven,
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whereas you only have
about 23% that believe in hell.
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Isn't that interesting?
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And of the people
that believe in heaven,
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90% believe they're going there.
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Well, I believe the Bible
teaches it is a real place.
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As I mentioned, it's referenced
in the Bible over 500 times.
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Let's find out what the
scriptures say about this
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subject and how it
relates to Bible prophecy.
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First question, what did
Jesus promise his people?
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You can read in
John 14:2, he said,
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"In my Father's
house are many mansions,
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"and I go to
prepare a place for you."
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So, one thing we
learn about heaven,
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and the word mansion
here is dwelling place.
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Jesus said, "I'm going to
prepare a dwelling place for
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you." He wants
us to be with him.
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It's a tangible place in time.
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A lot of misconceptions
about what heaven is,
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and we're going to find out
what the Bible says about that.
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He says he's prepared a mansion.
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You ever enjoy
watching some of those programs
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about the the homes of the rich?
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The most expensive home in
the world is in Mumbai, India.
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And here, let me read
you a couple of facts.
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I printed these off because
I thought I might forget.
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One of the wealthiest people
in the world owns this house.
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It's called the Antilia
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and it was built by
a multi-billionaire.
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He's worth about $45
billion, Mukesh Ambani.
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And it tells us
that it's 550 feet high
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with 4 million square
feet of interior space.
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How'd you like to clean that?
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But that's not
a problem for him.
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First six stories will be
dedicated to parking lots,
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186 parking places to
pamper all the imported cars.
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600 workers in this house.
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And if the traffic is
bad, which it is in Mumbai,
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he can land on the
helicopter pad on the roof.
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Of course it's got the pool,
it's got the palatial rooms,
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20 floors of palatial
rooms and a silver staircase.
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And if the guests get hot,
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which it gets very hot
in that part of the country,
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there's a room that
produces artificial snow
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to cool everyone off.
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So, you go into
the blizzard room
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or whatever they call it there.
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And yeah, they've got a
panoramic view of the Arabian
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Sea, and this
house costs approximately
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or just under
$2 billion, a home.
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The sad thing is, you
spend all that money on a home
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and you're going to
still get old and die.
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Man, the mansions
that we might build here,
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they're not going to last.
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You're just going to
leave it to somebody else.
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Jesus is
preparing a place for us
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that will last forever, amen.
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What do we know about
the place Jesus is preparing?
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Isaiah 65:17 says,
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"Behold, I create a new
heavens and a new earth."
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I think most of us understand
why we need a new Earth.
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Bible tells us this earth
is waxing old like a garment.
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There's some serious problems.
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But a new heaven?
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What's wrong
with the old heaven?
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You need to
understand that when you find
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the word heaven in the Bible,
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there's three different
ways it describes heaven.
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The word is used
three different ways.
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Now, some of you have
heard of seventh heaven.
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Person says, "I
was in seventh heaven."
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There's no seventh heaven.
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The Apostle Paul tells
us in 2 Corinthians 12,
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says that, referring to himself,
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he says, "I knew a man
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"that was caught up
to the third heaven,
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"heard words that you're
not even allowed to speak."
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And it's a real place,
the dwelling place of God.
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The first time you
find the word heaven
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or what the Bible
calls the first heaven
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is the
atmosphere around the earth
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where the clouds
float and the birds fly.
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And when the Bible says,
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"The rain comes
down from heaven,"
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it's talking about the envelope
of air around the earth.
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When God separated
the waters above the earth
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from the waters
below the earth in Genesis,
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it's talking
about the atmosphere.
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When Captain Kirk, what, a
couple weeks ago, went to space,
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he had to escape the
atmosphere around the earth,
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get out of its
gravitational pull.
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So, that first
envelope is the first heaven.
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The second heaven is
when you talk about the stars
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that God made in space in
the cosmos, in the universe.
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The third heaven is referring to
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the dwelling
place of God, paradise.
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And so, this is when Paul says,
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"I was caught up
to the third heaven."
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It's talking about
there is an actual place
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where God dwells.
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Says he's
prepared for them a city,
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"He's prepared a city for them."
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Now, when I first read this
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and I thought God's
going to take us to a city,
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that didn't really float my boat
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because I've always
wanted to run to the country.
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I've been in most of the
major cities in the world,
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and born in Los Angeles,
grew up in New York City,
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lived with my mother
for a while in England,
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lived in Boston, in
Miami, been to Singapore,
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and you name it,
all over the world,
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Mumbai and Moscow.
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Karen and I have
traveled all over the world
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and I just don't like cities.
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This week, we had a day off.
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Karen and I went
up in the country
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where we were the only
people probably in 10 miles.
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It was really nice to get
out there in God's nature.
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But the reason that cities
have a problem in this world
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is because in this world,
you get people, and people sin.
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And where you got a lot of
people, you got a lot of sin,
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and there's
crime and there's evil
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and there's selfishness
and fighting and murder
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and all these problems.
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That's why
cities are so bad here.
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But in heaven, you're not
going to have those problems.
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So, when people
get together there,
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it's going to be
beautiful, pure rejoicing.
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No evil, no problems,
no sin, no filth, no dirt.
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He's prepared a city.
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The media enjoys
talking about heaven.
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Does heaven exist?
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And some people, when
you say, "Picture heaven,"
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you know what they see?
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They see little chubby
naked babies with wings
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sitting on clouds,
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playing harps or
shooting Cupid's arrows.
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You know what I'm talking about?
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You got all these medieval
pictures of people and say,
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"Yeah, I'm going to die
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"and I'm going to go be a
fat naked baby in heaven."
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And the media
almost makes it sound
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like hell is more interesting.
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Trust me, it's not.
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I hope to inspire
you first with a place
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where we want to think about,
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which is going to heaven.
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"Blessed are the meek,
they will inherit the earth."
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"Now, wait a
second, Pastor Doug.
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"Here it says, 'The meek
will inherit the earth.'"
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It's 'cause he's making a
new heaven and a new earth.
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We're going to
spend time with the Lord
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in these mansions he's prepared
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and he's going to bring the
new Jerusalem down from God,
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you read this in Revelation 21,
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out of heaven to the earth.
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But now we're
getting ahead of ourself.
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What more do we
know about the holy city
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that God is preparing?
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You read, and
there's a lot of details.
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Notice, this is Revelation 21.
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It says, "The city
is laid out as a square,
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"and he measured
the city with a reed."
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This is like, we
have tape measures,
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they would measure
with a reed back then.
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"12,000 furlongs."
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The measurements are
given in this English equivalent
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or biblical numbers.
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By our standards,
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that would be the city
is about 1500 miles around,
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or you can figure
375 miles on each side.
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It's about the size
of the state of Oregon.
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And so, if you've got a city
that's 375 miles on each side,
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is there room for you?
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Some folks have
actually thought,
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"No sense
trying to go to heaven.
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"I'm just too late in line.
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"There's just so many people,
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"how God going
to fit me in there?"
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I promise you, that
will not be the problem.
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The harvest is great.
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The laborers are few.
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The Lord wants
people to enter the city.
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"The length and the breadth
and the height of it are equal."
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And so, it's
almost like it's a cube.
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Now, the height of it equal
to the length and the breadth?
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When you look at that,
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and this is something of
a puzzle for theologians,
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does that mean that in
the middle of the city,
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it sort of goes up
like shaped like a pyramid
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where it's 375
miles jutting right out
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of the atmosphere of the earth?
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That's hard to imagine.
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Revelation 21:10 and 12,
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"He carried me
away in the spirit
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"to a great and high mountain,
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"and he showed me the
great city, the holy Jerusalem."
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Now the word Jerusalem,
jeru-shalam, it means city of
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peace. The earthly Jerusalem
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has been destroyed
and rebuilt 27 times.
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And when you go
see Jerusalem today,
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they still have the ancient
wall that is full of pockmarks
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from bullet holes
and arrows and missiles
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and stones that were
thrown against the walls.
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You get the
evidence of war everywhere.
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And the people
in Jerusalem today,
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you've got the Jewish quarter
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and you've got
the Muslim quarter
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and you've got
the Armenian quarter
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and you've got
the Christian quarter,
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and everybody's got their space
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and there's incredible
racial tension in the city.
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But the new Jerusalem is going
to be very different from that.
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Everybody's going to
be part of one family
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and we'll all love each other.
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Descending out
from heaven from God,
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it had a great and a
high wall with 12 gates.
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Number that's going
to continue to appear
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as you look at the new Jerusalem
is the number, who knows?
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12.
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You've got 12
gates, 12 foundations.
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You've got Tree of
Life has 12 kinds of fruit,
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12 times a year.
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It's 12,000 furlongs.
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Now, why the number 12?
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12 is a number that
God uses for his church.
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He had 12 patriarchs
in the Old Testament,
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12 apostles in
the New Testament.
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There are 12 minor
prophets in the Old Testament.
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12 is also mathematically an
excellent number for builders.
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Any of you men or women,
if you've done any building,
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12, there's a reason
it's 12 inches in a foot.
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By the way, the fun fact,
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for years, the measurement
of the foot changed every year.
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It depended on the
size of the king's foot.
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It so happens my
foot is exactly one foot.
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And so, when I go
measure anything out
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and someone says, "I
wonder how far that is,"
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I say, "Wait, I'll tell you."
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And I just go like this
and it's right on every time.
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So, when they got a new king,
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if they had a king
with a little foot,
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it messed everybody up.
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But they always tried to keep it
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where there are
12 inches in the foot
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because 12 is divisible by one,
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by two, by three, by
four, by six, and by 12.
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And so, when you're building
and you use the number 12,
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it's the perfect
construction number.
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John's a fisherman,
he wasn't an architect.
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He got this
information from God,
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just like God gave no
other plans for the ark
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and they found that the
dimensions, the ratio of the
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ark, it's the same ratio
they use for oil tankers.
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It's a very stable ratio.
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How'd Noah know that?
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They had no oceans back then.
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God is the master
architect. Can you say amen?
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¤¤¤
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Doug: Don't go
anywhere, friends.
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In just a moment, we will
return to today's presentation.
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If you're anything like me,
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about death and dying.
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But is such a
life even possible?
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You better believe it.
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and learn some more amazing
facts from the Word of God.
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Something else you'll notice
00:14:25.73\00:14:27.03
as we look at the
different minerals,
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and let's read Revelation 21:12,
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"And the street of
the city was pure gold."
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You're still with me?
00:14:34.90\00:14:37.24
You've heard of
the golden streets?
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It's real.
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Now, that's why some people say,
00:14:40.34\00:14:41.78
"Ah, now, this has
just gotta be a metaphor."
00:14:41.81\00:14:43.88
Well, the Bible says it's
better than you can imagine.
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I mean, we pave our
streets with asphalt or stone.
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God has no shortage of gold.
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You realize he made it.
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He can make as much as he wants.
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He's got the factory.
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And so, it's not
a problem for him.
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Don't
underestimate what God can do.
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The other thing is that you
want streets that are durable.
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One of the most durable
minerals they have is gold.
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When they found King
Tut's tomb in, was it 1922,
00:15:06.60\00:15:10.44
Howard Carter, he looked inside
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and he shone a light
in there and they said,
00:15:12.41\00:15:14.24
"Do you see anything?"
00:15:14.28\00:15:15.94
And he looked at
the undisturbed tomb.
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The seal had not been
broken to the king's burial,
00:15:18.38\00:15:20.92
and the glint of
gold was everywhere
00:15:20.95\00:15:22.65
because even after 3000 years,
00:15:22.68\00:15:24.99
the gold was still shining.
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It's an incredible material.
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You don't notice
there's any wood.
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Nothing has to die
in this city to build.
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God is making
it out of minerals.
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What does the Bible say
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about the city's
water and food supply?
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Answer, "He showed me a
pure river, a water of life."
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Now, Jesus, he offers
us that water of life.
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He told the woman at the well:
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You're coming for this water,
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but you're going
to get thirsty again.
00:15:54.22\00:15:55.52
But the water
that I'm offering you,
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you drink it and
it will be inside you
00:15:56.89\00:15:58.59
as an artesian
well that will continue
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to spring up and
satisfy your thirst.
00:16:00.56\00:16:03.36
She said, "Oh, Lord,
give me that water now."
00:16:03.39\00:16:05.73
He revealed to her
he was the Messiah.
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By the way, the Lord is
offering you that living water.
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You can also read,
even in the book of Ezekiel,
00:16:11.23\00:16:13.10
it talks about a river.
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And now, how big is the river?
00:16:14.74\00:16:16.20
You read in Ezekiel
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when he's
describing the river in heaven,
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he says he walked out into it
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and he goes out 100 yards
and it's up to his ankles,
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and he keeps going out
and it's up to his knees,
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and he keeps going out
and it's up to his thighs,
00:16:25.35\00:16:27.02
and it just
keeps going and going.
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It gets deeper and deeper.
00:16:28.58\00:16:29.88
And then finally he said,
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"It's a river that one
cannot cross without swimming."
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What about the food?
00:16:33.86\00:16:35.22
On either side of the river,
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now, notice carefully,
00:16:36.96\00:16:38.26
either side of the
river was the tree,
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singular, not
trees, the tree of life.
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Always in the Bible when it
talks about the tree of life,
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and it's mentioned
several places, it's singular.
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A tree on both
sides of the river.
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How do you reconcile that?
00:16:52.41\00:16:54.54
Well, they
actually have some trees
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that will grow
together in their branches.
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I've seen it before.
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Trees that grow
up, the branches touch,
00:17:01.18\00:17:02.65
they actually graft
themselves together.
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They grow together.
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And I picture this massive tree.
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If the river's 50 miles wide,
you better figure a big tree.
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Of course,
everybody in the world's
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gotta eat from this tree,
00:17:12.53\00:17:13.83
so it's gotta be big.
00:17:13.86\00:17:15.23
And roots probably go
together under the river
00:17:15.26\00:17:19.03
and it has the fruit
that helps perpetuate life.
00:17:20.44\00:17:24.71
Man has not eaten from that tree
00:17:24.74\00:17:26.64
since God evicted Adam
and Eve from the garden,
00:17:26.68\00:17:28.68
but it will be restored.
00:17:28.71\00:17:30.15
One of the wonderful
things about the Bible
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is in the first three
chapters of the Bible,
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you learn how man lost eternity
00:17:35.22\00:17:37.85
because he got mixed up
with a snake in a garden.
00:17:37.89\00:17:40.19
First three chapters,
00:17:40.22\00:17:41.52
man is evicted from the garden.
00:17:41.56\00:17:42.86
You get to Revelation,
00:17:42.89\00:17:44.23
the snake is destroyed
00:17:44.26\00:17:45.99
and man is restored to the
garden and the tree of life
00:17:46.03\00:17:48.53
in the last three chapters.
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The whole book is telling us
00:17:50.47\00:17:51.77
how to get back
to the garden, amen,
00:17:51.80\00:17:53.94
and it's through Jesus.
00:17:53.97\00:17:55.27
It says, "The seed of the woman
00:17:55.30\00:17:56.74
"is the one who will
destroy the serpent."
00:17:56.77\00:17:58.74
That actually
happens in Revelation.
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Tells us that this
is some kind of tree.
00:18:01.14\00:18:03.78
Each tree yields
its fruit every month
00:18:03.81\00:18:06.11
and the leaves of the tree
00:18:06.15\00:18:07.45
are for the
healing of the nations.
00:18:07.48\00:18:10.59
Well, first of all,
it's fruit every month.
00:18:10.62\00:18:13.99
And if there's 12
different kinds of fruit
00:18:14.02\00:18:15.52
and there's 12 months in a year,
00:18:15.56\00:18:16.86
how many kinds of fruit is that?
00:18:16.89\00:18:18.36
12 times twelve, 144.
00:18:18.39\00:18:22.36
Another number you're
going to find is the 144,000.
00:18:22.40\00:18:25.73
I used to work
at Baskin-Robbins.
00:18:25.77\00:18:28.24
Baskin-Robbins
is famous for what?
00:18:28.27\00:18:30.64
31 flavors.
00:18:30.67\00:18:32.64
And they've got way
more than 31 flavors.
00:18:32.67\00:18:34.71
They promise to have
31 flavors at all time,
00:18:34.74\00:18:36.88
at least they did
when I worked there.
00:18:36.91\00:18:38.31
They got hundreds of flavors.
00:18:38.35\00:18:39.95
Whatever your favorite food is,
00:18:40.88\00:18:43.05
there will be some fruit
that you're really going to like
00:18:43.08\00:18:45.82
there at the tree.
00:18:45.85\00:18:47.16
The menu will never get boring.
00:18:47.19\00:18:49.59
And we're going to
gather and you're going to say,
00:18:49.62\00:18:51.19
"Oh, try this, it's like salsa!
00:18:51.23\00:18:52.93
"You're going to
like this fruit!"
00:18:52.96\00:18:54.30
Everyone's going to
be, 'cause I like salsa.
00:18:54.30\00:18:56.46
You're going to be tasting
all kinds of different fruit.
00:18:56.50\00:18:59.03
But then it says
the leaves of the tree
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are for the
healing of the nations.
00:19:01.34\00:19:03.17
Healing?
00:19:03.20\00:19:04.51
I thought
there's no more sickness.
00:19:04.54\00:19:06.11
Who needs healing?
00:19:06.14\00:19:08.34
Does it say healing of
sickness or healing of nations?
00:19:08.38\00:19:11.81
Nations.
00:19:12.91\00:19:14.32
Do you realize that
people all around the world
00:19:14.35\00:19:15.98
are divided now by nations?
00:19:16.02\00:19:19.69
People are divided by
culture, race, language.
00:19:19.72\00:19:23.06
But as we all come
together as the children of God
00:19:23.09\00:19:26.33
redeemed by Christ around
that tree and eat the fruit,
00:19:26.36\00:19:29.26
all of the divisions
that have separated us
00:19:29.30\00:19:32.17
are healed at that point.
00:19:32.20\00:19:33.74
Can you say amen?
00:19:33.77\00:19:35.27
And so, it's a
beautiful, poetic way of saying
00:19:35.30\00:19:38.67
everyone is going to be healed
00:19:38.71\00:19:40.01
of all the
divisions from this earth.
00:19:40.04\00:19:41.91
How will living in
heaven be different
00:19:43.11\00:19:44.58
than living here on Earth?
00:19:44.61\00:19:46.21
Has a lot of
beautiful examples, here.
00:19:46.25\00:19:49.75
Here's some specifics.
00:19:49.78\00:19:51.42
Tells us in Isaiah 35:5,
00:19:51.45\00:19:53.92
"Then the eyes of the
blind will be opened."
00:19:53.96\00:19:56.79
Blind people are going to
be able to see beautifully.
00:19:58.26\00:20:00.00
And in heaven,
whatever your vision is now,
00:20:00.03\00:20:03.16
it's going to be
infinitely better.
00:20:03.20\00:20:05.33
Eagles can see three miles away.
00:20:05.37\00:20:07.14
they can see a mouse.
00:20:07.17\00:20:08.80
They got telescopic vision.
00:20:08.84\00:20:10.24
You will have much
better vision in heaven.
00:20:10.27\00:20:13.54
"The ears of the
deaf will be unstopped."
00:20:13.58\00:20:16.68
You'll be able to
hear a rustle in the grass,
00:20:16.71\00:20:19.48
like an
elephant, from a mile away.
00:20:19.51\00:20:22.32
And it tells us that the
lame man will leap like a deer.
00:20:22.35\00:20:25.99
They're going to
have incredible strength
00:20:26.02\00:20:27.39
and they're going to
be able to leap and jump.
00:20:27.42\00:20:30.43
You read also, it says,
00:20:30.46\00:20:31.76
"And they will
not hurt or destroy."
00:20:31.79\00:20:34.20
Talks about the animals are
going to all be kind to each
00:20:34.23\00:20:37.60
other. A child will play on
the hole of a venomous serpent
00:20:37.63\00:20:39.80
and it will not hurt.
00:20:39.83\00:20:41.30
The wolf will lay
down with the lamb.
00:20:41.34\00:20:43.04
You've heard these verses
before, right, in the Bible?
00:20:43.07\00:20:45.91
And nothing is
going to hurt or destroy
00:20:45.94\00:20:48.44
in all of his holy mountain.
00:20:48.48\00:20:50.41
Got a little
amazing fact for you.
00:20:50.45\00:20:52.91
Several years
ago, some drug agents,
00:20:52.95\00:20:56.69
they went into the the apartment
00:20:56.72\00:20:59.55
or the mansion
of this drug lord,
00:20:59.59\00:21:03.06
and he was busted.
00:21:03.09\00:21:04.56
And in his basement he had a
lion, a bear, and a tiger cub.
00:21:04.59\00:21:09.03
He had a lot of money.
00:21:10.27\00:21:11.73
I don't know if
you know that Escobar,
00:21:11.77\00:21:16.20
who is the drug
kingpin there in Columbia,
00:21:16.24\00:21:19.07
he had his own zoo.
00:21:19.11\00:21:20.44
I don't know what it
is with these drug guys.
00:21:20.48\00:21:21.78
They liked animals.
00:21:21.81\00:21:23.21
So, this guy, he
had a cub, a bear cub,
00:21:23.24\00:21:26.85
a lion, and a tiger,
00:21:26.88\00:21:29.82
and they were in terrible
squalor in the basement.
00:21:29.85\00:21:33.05
But they seemed to
get along with each other.
00:21:33.09\00:21:34.99
And so, when they finally,
00:21:35.02\00:21:36.52
they said, the police said,
"What do we do with these?"
00:21:36.56\00:21:38.49
There was a group
that had an animal shelter
00:21:38.53\00:21:40.83
called Noah's Ark or something
00:21:40.86\00:21:42.20
and they took these animals in,
00:21:42.23\00:21:43.87
and they remained friends.
00:21:43.90\00:21:45.20
They called them BLT,
for Bear, Lion, Tiger.
00:21:45.23\00:21:48.34
Kinda like the Wizard of Oz,
00:21:50.21\00:21:51.51
"Lions and tigers
and bears, oh my!"
00:21:51.54\00:21:53.58
But it's real!
00:21:53.61\00:21:54.91
And they play together,
00:21:54.94\00:21:56.24
and they fight
every now and then.
00:21:56.28\00:21:57.91
They eat together.
00:21:57.95\00:21:59.38
When they go to sleep at night,
they all curl up together.
00:21:59.41\00:22:01.05
And you think, well,
00:22:01.08\00:22:02.38
normally in their normal
habitat, they'd be enemies.
00:22:02.42\00:22:04.69
In heaven, the animals
will not kill each other
00:22:04.72\00:22:07.42
and everybody's going to be
a vegetarian there in heaven.
00:22:08.86\00:22:12.29
We're not going to
be chasing down chickens
00:22:12.33\00:22:14.00
and cutting off their heads
00:22:14.03\00:22:15.33
and making
McNuggets out of them.
00:22:15.36\00:22:16.67
It says we're going to be
eating from the tree of life.
00:22:16.70\00:22:19.30
"The wolf also
will dwell with the lamb
00:22:20.50\00:22:22.97
"and a little
child will lead them."
00:22:23.00\00:22:25.94
So, nothing
dies in this kingdom.
00:22:25.97\00:22:28.71
There is no more death.
00:22:28.74\00:22:31.05
"The desert shall
blossom as the rose."
00:22:31.08\00:22:33.92
There's going to be places
that will be of intense beauty
00:22:33.95\00:22:36.38
and there'll be places that
will be of wonderful beauty.
00:22:36.42\00:22:39.22
There'll be no
deserts where there's no life.
00:22:39.25\00:22:41.76
Even the deserts here
will blossom as the rose.
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"The inhabitant will
not say, 'I am sick.'"
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Say amen to that.
00:22:50.33\00:22:52.27
We're just
surrounded by news all the time
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of people being
sick and being overcome
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by a disease or
viruses or bacteria.
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Nobody's going to get
sick, nobody will die.
00:23:01.51\00:23:03.85
You'll be in perfect health
and vitality all the time.
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Won't that be wonderful?
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And the best news, it
says there'll be no more death.
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No one needs to worry or
live in fear about death.
00:23:11.29\00:23:14.32
No more death, no more
sorrow, no more crying.
00:23:14.36\00:23:18.73
The former
things are passed away.
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All things are made new.
00:23:20.90\00:23:23.03
Who's going to be there?
00:23:23.06\00:23:24.37
It says, "These are the ones
00:23:24.40\00:23:26.13
"who follow the
Lamb wherever he goes."
00:23:26.17\00:23:30.01
Do you want to
be in that kingdom?
00:23:30.04\00:23:31.61
Who's going to be there?
00:23:31.64\00:23:33.11
144,000, it says they follow
the Lamb wherever he goes.
00:23:33.14\00:23:36.11
Now, here's a simple principle.
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If you want to
follow the Lamb there then,
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you must first
follow him here now.
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- [Congregation] Amen.
00:23:44.19\00:23:45.62
- You will not be able
to follow him there then,
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if you don't learn
to follow him here now.
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Jesus says to each one of us
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what he said to the
apostles, "Follow me."
00:23:53.06\00:23:56.23
Follow his teachings.
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He wants us to
spend time with him.
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Will any sad or
painful memories from this life
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trouble people in heaven?
00:24:04.01\00:24:05.37
No.
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The Bible says, "The
former will not be remembered,
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"nor come into mind."
00:24:10.28\00:24:12.18
Now, that doesn't mean
that God brainwashes us
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so we forget that
Jesus has redeemed us.
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Even in the resurrection
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when Jesus showed
himself to his disciples,
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did he still have
the scars in his hands?
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He did.
00:24:23.53\00:24:24.83
So, there'll
always be that reminder
00:24:24.86\00:24:26.80
of what Jesus did to die for us
00:24:26.83\00:24:28.73
and that he
sacrificed his life for us.
00:24:28.76\00:24:32.03
But we're not going to have
any of the painful memories.
00:24:32.07\00:24:34.10
I don't know about
you, but I frequently,
00:24:34.14\00:24:37.27
my mind wanders and I go back,
00:24:37.31\00:24:39.07
and sometimes I think
about things that I've done
00:24:39.11\00:24:41.61
and I just sigh
and I have my regrets.
00:24:41.64\00:24:43.95
And even though I know the
Lord's forgiven me, I think,
00:24:43.98\00:24:45.71
"Oh, Doug, what
were you thinking?
00:24:45.75\00:24:47.05
"Why'd you do that?"
00:24:47.08\00:24:48.38
You still got it in your mind.
00:24:48.42\00:24:50.29
As you enter eternity,
00:24:50.32\00:24:52.59
how many of you know that
it's true that time heals?
00:24:52.62\00:24:55.66
As you enter eternity
00:24:55.69\00:24:57.23
and you get away from
the pain of this world,
00:24:57.26\00:24:59.63
after the first million years,
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you're not going to
worry about it anymore.
00:25:01.03\00:25:02.33
You'll never forget
that Jesus redeemed you.
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Can we adequately describe
God's new kingdom with words?
00:25:05.07\00:25:10.07
No.
00:25:10.67\00:25:11.97
"The eye has not
seen, nor the ear heard,
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"neither has entered
into the heart of man
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"the things that God has
prepared for those that love
00:25:16.81\00:25:21.22
him." I just, last
year, I read a book.
00:25:21.25\00:25:23.42
I'd done it before, but I
read a book on Marco Polo.
00:25:23.45\00:25:26.55
And as a young man,
00:25:26.59\00:25:28.39
he went with his father
at 17 years old to China,
00:25:28.42\00:25:31.16
which was this massive empire,
00:25:31.19\00:25:33.09
incredible technology and
millions and millions of people.
00:25:33.13\00:25:36.80
And it was so much more
sophisticated and bigger
00:25:36.83\00:25:39.40
than what he had left in Europe.
00:25:39.43\00:25:41.40
He came back after 20, 25
years living in the Orient
00:25:41.44\00:25:44.64
and traveling the world,
00:25:44.67\00:25:46.04
and he started
to tell the stories
00:25:46.07\00:25:48.08
of what was happening in China,
00:25:48.11\00:25:50.75
talked about this wall
that was a thousand miles long.
00:25:50.78\00:25:53.38
They said, "A thousand miles!
00:25:53.42\00:25:55.18
"You're exaggerating."
00:25:55.22\00:25:56.69
Talked about gunpowder,
talked about paper money,
00:25:56.72\00:25:59.09
talked about all
the incredible things
00:25:59.12\00:26:00.69
and the
inventions that they had.
00:26:00.72\00:26:03.19
When he lay dying, it's true.
00:26:03.22\00:26:05.23
He lay dying.
00:26:06.13\00:26:07.40
The priest came to him
00:26:07.46\00:26:08.76
and asked him to
confess before it was too late.
00:26:08.80\00:26:11.80
They said, "You're
soon going to meet God.
00:26:11.83\00:26:13.50
"You told all these
lies about the land of China.
00:26:13.54\00:26:16.77
"Don't you think it's time
that you confess and repent?"
00:26:16.81\00:26:19.37
And he sat up and looked
at him and said, "Repent?"
00:26:19.41\00:26:22.48
Says, "I've not told you
the half of what I've seen!"
00:26:22.51\00:26:26.35
That's always how I
feel like during this sermon,
00:26:26.38\00:26:28.38
is I'm not able to tell you
a fraction of what it's like.
00:26:28.42\00:26:32.35
But we need to be
excited about heaven, friends,
00:26:32.39\00:26:35.36
because if you believe
that's where you're going,
00:26:35.39\00:26:38.09
for one thing,
00:26:38.13\00:26:39.56
it makes the sins of
this world less attractive.
00:26:39.59\00:26:42.13
Everybody lives
in a particular way
00:26:43.30\00:26:45.13
when you're getting
ready to take a trip.
00:26:45.17\00:26:47.64
If you're getting
ready to go to heaven,
00:26:47.67\00:26:50.31
you know, they
talk different there.
00:26:50.34\00:26:52.14
You want God to sanctify
your lips now, don't you?
00:26:53.58\00:26:56.34
They dress different there.
00:26:56.38\00:26:57.68
We should dress like Christians.
00:26:57.71\00:26:59.65
They think different there.
00:26:59.68\00:27:01.18
We should be pure in heart.
00:27:01.22\00:27:03.25
And so, we ought to be preparing
for that new kingdom, amen?
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